Chicken Coop
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Painters Tip
Intensity of Color
There are four ways to change the intensity of colors when mixing paint.
As white is added to any hue the tone becomes lighter in value but it also loses it’s brightness or intensity.
When black is added to a hue, the intensity diminishes as the value darkens.
You can't change value without losing intensity, although they are not the same property.
The third method of changing intensity involves mixing a neutral gray of the same value as the hue. The mixture is then a variation in intensity without a change in value. The color become less bright with each addition of gray but the value remains unchanged.
The fourth way to change the intensity of any hue is by adding it’s complement. The mixture of two hues that occur exactly opposite each other on the color wheel; red/green, yellow/purple, and orange/blue. The complimentary colors represent an equal balance of the three primaries.
The dominating color in the mixture of compliments gives it’s bias to the neutral. A gray mixed with yellow/purple/white can either have a cooler tone with more purple or a warmer tone with more yellow.
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